[css-d] some problems...

2008-12-01 Thread Paul Ravenstone
Ok I have it looking exactly like I want it in ie7, (www.pmcsravenstone.com ) everything else, breaks... I don't know where I went wrong. IE5.5 is all flippin' out, does it not accept margin: 0 auto? IE6 obviously does not accept png transparency... why exactly did they forget that? And on that not

Re: [css-d] Tweak needed for IE6

2008-12-01 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
>> I'm seeing another issue I had in IE6 where the background image of >> my left-side navigation is repeating just a tiny bit below the >> bottom of the navigation container. > RE: IE6 interprets empty elements to contain whitespace, and since IE6 doesn

Re: [css-d] Tweak needed for IE6

2008-12-01 Thread David Laakso
Kym Costanzo wrote: > David Laakso wrote: > >> IE/6 needs a little more horizontal room. One why to do that is to feed a >> > wider outer width: > >> * html #maincontainer { >> width: 910px; >> } /* 4 IE/6.0*/ >> > > > Thanks, David - that tweak did work well and I learned somethin

Re: [css-d] narrowing browser window moves div to the bottom

2008-12-01 Thread css
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 11:06:24PM +0100, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > FWIW: we generally don't use, or need, html tables for layout. The whole point of this exercise is so I can re-do my website using CSS for layout, learning how to do it with my simple 2 column layout. And now I can! Hurrah! Howev

Re: [css-d] narrowing browser window moves div to the bottom

2008-12-01 Thread css
Ignore me - all fixed - I went through stylesheet 1 thing at a time taking it out and seeing what happened... and found a max-width that I completely didn't see when I read the whole file... it's been a long day. Thanks so much for your help and advice! -- Flash Bristow -Web Design & Mas

Re: [css-d] narrowing browser window moves div to the bottom

2008-12-01 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > However, this doesn't make any difference in Firefox. I guess maybe > when I get my code validating it might work? Otherwise the only > difference appears to be text size. Validity is a good thing, but unless you have some horrible errors that browsers can't figure out

Re: [css-d] narrowing browser window moves div to the bottom

2008-12-01 Thread css
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 08:41:47PM +0100, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > The incomplete doctype makes browsers stay in quirks mode. > See: Fixing that (while still staying with transitional) has worked well thank you - I was worried I'd have

Re: [css-d] narrowing browser window moves div to the bottom

2008-12-01 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Anne E. Shroeder wrote: > Georg, what do you mean by "it'll switch box model"? Are you saying > it's possible to fool IE6 into not using its default box model > standards? Not fool it... All somewhat new browsers will switch to 'standards mode' if given a proper doctype to switch on. If the do

Re: [css-d] narrowing browser window moves div to the bottom

2008-12-01 Thread css
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 08:41:47PM +0100, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > > http://gorge.org/newdes/ > > > But if you narrow the browser window, the content goes below the > > navbar. Argh! > > The incomplete doctype makes browsers stay in quirks mode. > See:

[css-d] Explorer glitch?

2008-12-01 Thread Kevin Evans
Hello, I am working on a site here http://www.marksandharrison.com/homepage01.asp and I am having problems in Explorer on the Safety Alerts accordion menu news thingy in the content area below the En Esponal button. It works fine in FIrefox but in IE there is a graphic glitch below the Co

Re: [css-d] Tweak needed for IE6

2008-12-01 Thread David Laakso
Kym Costanzo wrote: > This is my first post to the list, I hope I post according to list > etiquette! > > The site I am working on looks fine in IE7 and Firefox 2 and 3. But it is > messed up in IE6. The contents of my main content area are being pushed down > and do not begin displaying until b

Re: [css-d] narrowing browser window moves div to the bottom

2008-12-01 Thread Anne E. Shroeder
"Gunlaug Sørtun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about: >> http://gorge.org/newdes/ > > A proper - complete - doctype will get IE7 somewhat up to speed, but the > 'min-width' value is too small for it when it starts supporting the W3C > box model. IE6 doesn't support 'min-width' anyway, but it'll switch

Re: [css-d] narrowing browser window moves div to the bottom

2008-12-01 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://gorge.org/newdes/ > But if you narrow the browser window, the content goes below the > navbar. Argh! The incomplete doctype makes browsers stay in quirks mode. See: For IE6 and 7 that means: no su

[css-d] Tweak needed for IE6

2008-12-01 Thread Kym Costanzo
This is my first post to the list, I hope I post according to list etiquette! The site I am working on looks fine in IE7 and Firefox 2 and 3. But it is messed up in IE6. The contents of my main content area are being pushed down and do not begin displaying until below my sidebars in IE6. Stag

[css-d] misalignment in form & extra spacing IE7

2008-12-01 Thread Barb @ BITS LLC
Hi -- On this page -- http://thebirdhouseny.com/index.php I'm having two issues, I'm looking for help with. 1. In IE7 the "Go" to the right of the search box is pushed down one line. Everything looks fine in Firefox. 2. In IE7, there is extra white space at the bottom between the

[css-d] PNG background repeat-y problem in IE6

2008-12-01 Thread rollandburn
Hi everyone... I have an IE6 issue that I could really use some help with. The site is here http://www.earthsys.ca/Careers/ (index page not working yet) It seems that the vertically repeating background image on my #container div will only reach down so far on pages with longer content, o

[css-d] Gap between divs in IE

2008-12-01 Thread Peter Ritchie
Thank you everyone for your help - I feel humbled that I did not validate the css first. Spry errors come free from Adobe and did not feel it was my place to touch them! Peter __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-di

Re: [css-d] Gap between divs in IE

2008-12-01 Thread David Laakso
Peter Ritchie wrote: > The top bar image should be flush with the bottom of the top > background image. It is fine except in IE. Any help would be > gratefully appreciated > http://www.catalogntime.com > > Peter Ritchie > #topline img {display:block;} -- A thin red line and a salmon-c

Re: [css-d] Gap between divs in IE

2008-12-01 Thread Jack Timmons
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Peter Ritchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The top bar image should be flush with the bottom of the top > background image. It is fine except in IE. Any help would be > gratefully appreciated > http://www.catalogntime.com > > Peter Ritchie Before troubleshooting yo

[css-d] narrowing browser window moves div to the bottom

2008-12-01 Thread css
Hi, I know it seems like I'm posting out of the blue, but I've been on and off this list as workload permits! However recently I've been making a real effort to use CSS instead of tables for layout, but I still don't quite get it... Here's a new demo of my personal website: http://gorge.org/newd

[css-d] Gap between divs in IE

2008-12-01 Thread Peter Ritchie
The top bar image should be flush with the bottom of the top background image. It is fine except in IE. Any help would be gratefully appreciated http://www.catalogntime.com Peter Ritchie __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:/

Re: [css-d] Problem with form in IE6 and IE7 [Solved]

2008-12-01 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Bill Brown: > Hi Peter, > > The DL.DT.DD family is a rare and unique jewel in the family of HTML > tags and the only one I know of with such a relationship between the > three elements in the sub-family. I've used it many times and been > pretty happy with it. That being said, it do

[css-d] equal length columns in hybrid layout

2008-12-01 Thread Elaine LaBonte
The immediate goal is to make the vertical line separating the two content columns on this page:  http://labontewebstudio.com/accessibility-web210-today/web210-labonte-categories.htm It's a template-based page, so it needs to work regardless of which column is longer. Although there are sever

[css-d] Cancel: Fw: equal length columns in hybrid layout

2008-12-01 Thread Elaine LaBonte
I'm sorry.  I just saw the answer from Christian Kirchhoff and expect my answer there.  Thanks, Elaine --- On Mon, 12/1/08, Elaine LaBonte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Elaine LaBonte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: equal length columns in hybrid layout To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Date: Mon